Meriwether Sheriff's Office investigators are trying to find out who spray painted anti-white graffiti on a church sign.
It happened at Faith Baptist Church in Greenville, Ga., not far from Columbus.
Officials believe that the vandals were likely responding to the pastor's views on issues like gay rights, interracial marriage and religions other than Christianity.
Southern Baptist preacher Billy Ball admits that the messages he put on his church sign are provocative, but he says they are all Biblically based.
"I had a message that said ‘Perverts loves perverts.' Before that I had ‘Obama loves pervert,'" said Ball.
Ball says, however, the anti-white graffiti that someone spray painted overnight on his church's sign goes too far.
"It had to be a white person that did it because we have been taught, and our job is to respond to the teaching, that no minority could ever be a racist, so I'm sure it was white people that did it," Ball said, tongue-in-cheek.
Ball says his beliefs and sermon are intolerable of three groups.
"Illegal Mexicans, sodomites, and radical Islam are the most protected group. They can do anything they want to and if you say anything against them, it's hate," said Ball.
Ball pastors 130 members of Faith Baptist Church in Greenville, Ga., and believes individuals should primarily marry within their own race and religion. As far as the culprit who vandalized the sign,
"I'd love to see them get right with God. I'd love to see them come in here…and say, ‘Pastor, I did a bad thing, would you forgive us?' That'd be the end of it. I'd invite them to church on Sunday and preach to them," said Ball.
The Meriwether Sheriff's Office said that they are investigating the vandalism and have several suspects they are checking out.
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Meriwether Sheriff's Investigators are trying to find out who spray painted anti-white graffiti on a sign at Faith Baptist Church in Greenville, Ga.
